The Constitution of the United States, Its Sources and Its ApplicationLittle, Brown, 1922 - 298 Seiten |
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... Constitutional Convention and made a part of our fundamental law . Many other provisions of our Constitution merely state principles of English law as the colonists thought that they should be applied in the new day . Thus , in 1780 ...
... Constitutional Convention and made a part of our fundamental law . Many other provisions of our Constitution merely state principles of English law as the colonists thought that they should be applied in the new day . Thus , in 1780 ...
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Thomas James Norton. Nearly a year before the Constitutional Convention sat James Madison began working out what was called " the Virginia plan " of a form of government . Charles Pinckney of South Carolina took with him to the Con ...
Thomas James Norton. Nearly a year before the Constitutional Convention sat James Madison began working out what was called " the Virginia plan " of a form of government . Charles Pinckney of South Carolina took with him to the Con ...
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... Constitutional Convention was not to construct a government from the foundation up . There had already been firmly set by experience thirteen base- stones in the form of State republican governments . Upon these , and for the benefit of ...
... Constitutional Convention was not to construct a government from the foundation up . There had already been firmly set by experience thirteen base- stones in the form of State republican governments . Upon these , and for the benefit of ...
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... Convention chosen by the Continental Congress 1 to frame them . But , owing mostly to disputes regarding western lands ( the royal grants to the Colonies reaching westward indefinitely ) , the last State did not give its rati- fication ...
... Convention chosen by the Continental Congress 1 to frame them . But , owing mostly to disputes regarding western lands ( the royal grants to the Colonies reaching westward indefinitely ) , the last State did not give its rati- fication ...
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... Convention adjourned to the next year at Philadelphia . All the States except Rhode Island were then present by representatives . Washington , a delegate from Virginia , was chosen to preside . " Let us raise a standard to which the ...
... Convention adjourned to the next year at Philadelphia . All the States except Rhode Island were then present by representatives . Washington , a delegate from Virginia , was chosen to preside . " Let us raise a standard to which the ...
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Seite 147 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Seite 253 - When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies : Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointment until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Seite 60 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold and his wife* and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Seite 4 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Seite 6 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Seite 194 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Seite 34 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Seite 77 - States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations.
Seite 225 - Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth.
Seite 4 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.